Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act

It is a chemical substance that influences the function of living cells and alters the body or mental processes when taken into the body or applied through the skin

Drug

How are drugs taken?

1. Ingestion

2. Inhalation

3. Injection

4. Used as suppository

5. Applied topically

When things come out of control, and people act compulsively, no matter what the consequences.

Addiction

When the individual is no longer in control of their life, they become addicted regardless of the triggering mechanism. The addiction can take over the _______ of one person.

entire life

It is a state of compulsive use of psychoactive substances (drugs, narcotics, and chemicals). Use continues despite negative consequences (social, emotional, or physical harm; they may cause the user.)

Drug addiction or dependence

Drugs are addictive and differ from substance to person. Similarly, a person who is predisposed to addiction psychologically or genetically is much more likely to become…?

Addicted

Drug addiction has two forms:

1. Physical Dependency

2. Psycho Logical Dependency

It occurs when a drug or substance is regularly used, and the body becomes accustomed to its effects. Then the addict must continue to use the drug to feel normal since his absence will trigger withdrawal symptoms.

Physical dependency

It comes when a drug is used regularly, and the mind has become emotionally dependent on its influence, either feeling pleasure or relieving pain. It does not feel able to function without it. Its absence gives rise to intense cravings, often brought on or magnified with stress. An addict may have either aspect of dependence but usually has both.

Psychological dependency

Any drug that is taken excessively can be _____. Certain drugs can also be harmful if taken in dangerous combinations or ordinary or even small amounts by a hypersensitive (allergic) person.

harmful

Why do people turn to drugs?

1. Medicines can solve problems

2. Widespread access to various drugs

3. Peer pressure

4. The notion that drugs give enjoyment to users and in the context that is used as an alcohol substitute

It is the use of a licit or illicit chemical substance, which results in physical, mental, or social impairment of an individual.

Drug abuse

What are the common causes of Drug Abuse?

1. Unhappy home, parents are showing no interest in their children.

2. Lack of parental values and guidance.

3. Domestic violence, whether verbal or physical.

4. Parents who make free use of alcohol and illegal drugs.

5. Peer pressure/encouragement.

6. Curiosity or desire to experience.

7. Escape from mental and physical pain; relief from boredom and frustration;

8. Desires to escape from harsh realities.

9. Weak personality, the common sense of self – esteem and self – worth

Drug addicted lives revolve around the misuse of drugs. They miss their regular meals, losing their appetite

Malnutrition

Loss of thought processes may trigger panic reactions or an invulnerability feeling. Both states can result in injury and death, and the prolonged harmful reactions include anxiety and depressive condition, breaking with the reality that can last from a couple of days to months.

Panic Reaction

Besides, these illnesses, which involve unsterile syringes and injected medications, may cause some medical problems. It may be damage to the liver and kidneys when capturing overall qualities. Most individuals who misuse drugs neglect personal hygiene, which can contribute to other health issues. Kidney failure, tuberculosis, severe weight loss, a deficit in vitamins are some of the adverse physical complications.

Physical Damage

They are known as "downers," drugs that act on and depress the central nervous system causing initial relaxation that leads to sleep and drowsiness.

Depressants

The main ingredient of alcoholic drinks. Some liquor brands such as gin, whiskey, brandy, Pilsen, and rum are favored to achieve the desired effect among alcoholics or trouble drinkers. It is the most common substance used during adolescence, which alters the mind.

Ethyl alcohol

They known as "opiates or opioids," is opium-derived drugs and their derivatives. These medicinal drugs relieve pain, suppress cough, reduce bowel movement, and induce psychological indifference.

Narcotics

Coagulated opium poppy juice used formerly as a pain reliever but replaced with morphine and codeine

Opium

It is used as suppressants of analgesics and cough.

Phenanthrene alkaloids

They are opium's primary alkaloid occurs in a crystalline white base and is marketed as tablets and injectable solutions.

Morphine

An alkaloid that was extracted from morphine and used as an analgesic mild.

Codeine

White crystalline narcotics synthesized from morphine and used as a suppressant for coughing.

Heroine

Drugs used to stimulate alertness, boost mood, increase speech, mental and motor activity, alleviate tiredness or boredom, and decrease appetite.

Stimulants

A colorless liquid with an acrid taste and a mild odor that stimulates the central nervous system considerably. This illicit drug most commonly used in the United States.

Amphetamine

It is known as "shabu," is a white, odorless crystalline powder with a bitter taste, considered the Philippines' most abused stimulant. The abusers administer it by injection, inhalation, sniffing, or ingestion through the body.

Methamphetamine hydrochloride

A synthetic drug similar to amphetamine colored white, yellow, or brown with a bitter taste and comes in the form of tablets, capsules, or powders in various styles and shapes.

Ecstasy

It is known as "coke," alkaloids are derived from coca plant leaves, commonly used in minor surgery as local anesthetics, one of the shortest and most potent stimulants. A cheap, readily available type of smokable cocaine is known as crack.

Cocaine

The active ingredient in coffee, tea, cola drinks, used to constrict the blood flow and as a cure for headaches, diuretics, and extreme asthma care.

Caffeine

A poisonous alkaloid that is an active ingredient in tobacco and cigarettes. Extracted from tobacco leaves, it is colorless but quickly turns brown when exposed to sunlight. It has a burning, acrid flavor.

Nicotine

It is known as "psychedelics," a collection of natural or synthetic psychoactive substances that create a shift in the state of consciousness that triggers reactions, including perceptual alterations. They create hallucinations or visions in the form of shapes and changes of colorin the appearance of the outside world, which progress in replacing the actual reality with imaginary beings and landscapes in extreme cases

Hallucinogens

A fungal-derived crystalline material that infects wheat or rye. Well known and most potent hallucinogen in the form of tablets, gelatin, or impregnated paper took orally.

Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)

It is known as "STP," a product extracted from peyote cactus dried tops.

Mescaline

A mushroom-ingested hallucinogenic agent to achieve its effect close to LSD and STP.

Psilocybin

It is considered threatening and highly dangerous drugs because it can be easily synthesized with no human medical purpose but used by veterinarians as anesthetic and animal sedative

Phencyclidine (PCP)

It is known as cannabis, a moderate hallucinogenic product extracted from crushed leaves, flowering tops, and stems of the "cannabis Sativa" hemp plant. In Central Asia and China, they typically smoked or eaten for pleasure in juicing and folk medicine.

Marijuana

Substances that are not usually considered to be medicinal products but have great potential for misuse. They are inhaled or sniffed to produce a state of intoxication for their psychoactive (mind/mood-altering) effects. The effects can be felt instantly and last for 45 minutes, and the central nervous system becomes depressed. It includes the class of volatile hydrocarbons such as glue (rugby), gasoline, kerosene (gas), paint thinner, and solvent, nail polish and cuticle remover, lighter fluid, and fluorocarbons such as aerosol sprays, nasal sprays, and organic isoamyl nitrite (popper).

Inhalants

Importation of Dangerous Drugs &/or Controlled Precursor &Essential Chemicals

• Life imprisonment to death, fine ranging from five hundred thousand (P500,000.00) to ten million pesos (P10,000,000.00).

Sale, Trading, Administration, Dispensation, Delivery, Distribution, & Transportation of Dangerous Drugs

• Life imprisonment to death, fine ranging from five hundred thousand (P500,000.00) to ten million pesos (P10,000,000.00)

Maintenance of Den, Dive, or Resort

• Life imprisonment to death, fine ranging from five hundred thousand (P500,000.00) to ten million pesos (P10,000,000.00).

Employees and Visitors of den, Drive, or Resort

• Twelve (12) years in prison and one (1) day to twenty (20) years and fine ranging from one hundred thousand (P100,000.00) to five hundred thousand pesos (P500,000.00).

Manufacture of Dangerous Drugs &/or Controlled Precursor & Essential Chemicals

• Life imprisonment to death, fine ranging fromfive hundred thousand (P500,000.00) to ten million pesos (P10,000,000.00).

Manufacture or Delivery of Equipment, Instruments, Apparatus and Other Paraphernalia for Dangerous Drugs

• Twelve (12) years in prison and one (1) day to twenty (20) years and a fine ranging from one hundred thousand (P100,000.00) to five hundred thousand pesos (P500,000.00).

Possession of Dangerous Drugs

• Life imprisonment to death, fine ranging from five hundred thousand (P500,000.00) to ten million pesos (P10,000,000.00).

Possession of Equipment, Instruments, Apparatus, and Other Paraphernalia for Dangerous Drugs

• Six (6) months, & one (1) day to four (4) years imprisonment and a fine of ten thousand (P10,000.00) to fifty thousand pesos (P50,000.00).

Possession of Dangerous Drugs during Parties, Social Gatherings, or Meetings

• Life imprisonment to death, fine ranging from five hundred thousand (P500,000.00) to ten million pesos (P10,000,000.00)

Possession of Equipment, Instrument, Apparatus & other paraphernalia during Parties, Social Gatherings or Meetings

• Six (6) months, & one (1) day to four (4) years imprisonment and a fine of ten thousand (₱10,000.00) to fifty thousand pesos (₱50,000.00).

Use of Dangerous Drugs

• For the first time, six months (6) rehabilitation in the government center.

• The second time, imprisonment from six (6) years and one (1) day to twelve (12) years and a fine from fifty thousand (₱50,000.00) to two hundred thousand pesos (₱200,000.00).

Cultivation or Culture if Plants classifieds as Dangerous Drugs or are Sources thereof.

• Life imprisonment to death, fine ranging from five hundred thousand (₱500,000.00) to ten million pesos (₱10,000,000.00).

Maintenance & Keeping of Original Records of Transactions on Dangerous Drugs

• One (1) year & one (1) day to six (6) years imprisonment and fine ranging from ten thousand (₱10,000.00) to fifty thousand pesos (₱50,000.00).

Unnecessary Prescription of Dangerous Drugs

• Twelve (12) years & one (1) day to twenty (20) years of imprisonment and fine ranging from one hundred thousand (₱100,000.00) to five hundred thousand pesos (₱500,000.00).

Unlawful Prescription of Dangerous Drugs

• Life imprisonment to death, fine ranging from five hundred thousand (₱500,000.00) to ten million pesos (₱10,000,000.00).

Dates of Republic Act 9165 (Comprehensive Dangerous Drug Act of 2002)

Signed June 7, 2002

Published June 19, 2002

Took effect July 4, 202

It is the policy and strategy formulating body

Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB)

• A regular law enforcement agency.

• Implementing arm of the DDB.

• Responsible for efficient and effective law enforcement of all provisions on any dangerous drug and/or controlled precursor and essential chemicals.

Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA)

Anything that comes from nature

Natural

Anything that is artificially or processed in a factory

Synthetic